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09/18/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: for our who's hot who's not brought to us by
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  Speaker 2: Some good ones Yeah, we got a couple of good
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  Speaker 2: ones here. How about in the not category? Now, a
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  Speaker 2: scary situation that happened in New York last night as
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  Speaker 2: a Mets player was taken off the field with a collision.
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  Speaker 2: Nolan McLean. runs into, I believe it was the first
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  Speaker 2: baseman last night, right? Young, who had to get carted
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  Speaker 2: off the field. Concussion symptoms. However, the CT scans were
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  Speaker 2: negative after the night. Manager Andy Green, acting manager Andy Green,
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  Speaker 2: said that he had full use of his extremities. Terrifying
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  Speaker 2: moment on the baseball field, as Green said, but took
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  Speaker 2: him a while to come to. Really scary collision. That not.
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  Speaker 2: the reason why the Mets are in the not category
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  Speaker 2: here tonight, this morning in who's hot, who's not. No,
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  Speaker 2: it actually comes from a couple of days ago and
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  Speaker 2: drew video evidence now coming out of more from the
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  Speaker 2: Pete Alonzo 300th home run the other night and celebration
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  Speaker 2: at city field in what was a game tying home run.
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  Speaker 2: I believe in the ninth inning by Pete Alonzo that
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  Speaker 2: gave him his 300th home run. Well, video is now
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  Speaker 2: coming out of not only the stands, But the owner's
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  Speaker 2: box and owner, Steve Cohen, standing up, applauding and urging
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  Speaker 2: a standing ovation for the rest of city field as
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  Speaker 2: Pete Alonzo rounds, the base is celebrating and honoring his
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  Speaker 2: 300th home run. Then also digging into the mentions. Cause
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  Speaker 2: if you're in, if you're in this world of private equity,
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  Speaker 2: owning sports teams and Gone are going to be the
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  Speaker 2: days of Steve Cohen, guys. There's not going to be
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  Speaker 2: a whole lot of Steve Coens that love the team,
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  Speaker 2: got bundles of cash, and does not care where his
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  Speaker 2: money goes as long as it's going to New York
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  Speaker 2: Mets Incorporated. Well, I'm not going to say winning. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to say winning because they're not doing much.
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  Speaker 2: They're not doing a whole lot of winning right now.
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  Speaker 2: But he, fan of team, claps back at, boy... David Lemon,
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  Speaker 2: baseball columnist for Newsday, who joined Foul Territory guys to
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  Speaker 2: say that David Stearns had been seen around Citi Field.
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  Speaker 2: He's not even around in the clubhouse and dugout, hanging
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  Speaker 2: around during the game. He's not in the press box.
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  Speaker 2: And Stephen Cohen said, that's strange. commented on the video
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  Speaker 2: at foul territory. I was in the pregame in the
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  Speaker 2: dugout pregame with him on Monday with a guy that
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  Speaker 2: looked a heck of a lot like David Stearns. Was
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  Speaker 2: it an imposter who I was talking to?
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  Speaker 3: I love the fact.
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  Speaker 2: That their baseball team might be warm cheeks, but their
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  Speaker 2: owner hot on the keyboard. He is not letting anything
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  Speaker 2: go and he's going to defend himself right here. That
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  Speaker 2: was littered with different videos off. said Mets owner going
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  Speaker 2: and standing and applauding for the game tying home run
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  Speaker 2: against his former team for a guy that he would
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  Speaker 2: not pay the $ 175 million for.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, man, that's been an interesting situation.
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  Speaker 4: The whole Pete Alonzo thing and Mets fans are arguing
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  Speaker 4: with each other about what they should and shouldn't do.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, man, that is funny.
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  Speaker 4: I thought for a second you were going to go
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  Speaker 4: with the other not crew in New York, which was apparently,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys saw this.
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  Speaker 2: Big man Laz Diaz.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that too. I thought you were going to go
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  Speaker 3: with the EMS crew.
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  Speaker 4: That was stretching my man off because apparently they were
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  Speaker 4: getting some.
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  Speaker 3: Negative run on the internet.
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  Speaker 4: There was the video of the EMS crew working the
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  Speaker 4: stretcher and things like that. They were kind of fumbling
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  Speaker 4: and bumbling around with this thing. People are calling them
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  Speaker 4: the Three Stooges and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a funny situation. Now, they didn't quite drop.
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  Speaker 2: Not a funny situation while I laugh.
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  Speaker 5: At it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they didn't quite drop him. If you remember Mike McDonald,
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  Speaker 4: I think Drew, remember that? Mike McDonald was being stretchered
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  Speaker 4: off into an ambulance once, and they dropped him.
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  Speaker 2: I remember that. Is this straight out of pro wrestling?
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  Speaker 3: It's just like they're kind of.
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  Speaker 2: That happens weekly.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: This is kind of, and I saw some people at EMS.
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  Speaker 4: It's kind of like a painful thing there. So I
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  Speaker 4: thought that's where you're going there, but check that video
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  Speaker 4: out if you can. It's a scary situation, obviously. Like
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  Speaker 4: you said, New York, I think concussion symptoms, but.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He got rocked. He got hit so hard that even
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  Speaker 2: Alec Boehm on the other side, he was at third base.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, wait a second. Yeah, I'm not running. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to make sure this guy's okay. So luckily he
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  Speaker 2: came to much better, doing much better this morning, and
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  Speaker 2: hopefully we'll be all good. But the owner, he's not
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  Speaker 2: happy with what's happening right now and not happy with
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  Speaker 2: people making him the clown of the entire situation because
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  Speaker 2: he said, I'm not the reason. One guy that was
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  Speaker 2: the reason for some delay last night. Drew, what does
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  Speaker 2: a beat writer hate more than the non-pitch clock era?
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  Speaker 4: Oof.
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  Speaker 2: Would extra innings be right there at the top of
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  Speaker 2: the list? Extra innings is up there, yeah. What's worse
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  Speaker 2: than extra innings? Having five calls overturned in the extra inning.
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  Speaker 2: Las Diaz last night had five calls overturned in the
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  Speaker 2: 10th inning of the Angels and Twins game. No umpires
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  Speaker 2: had more than three calls overturned in a game's extra innings.
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  Speaker 2: This is the third time that five calls have been overturned, though.
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  Speaker 2: in a single inning in year one of the abs
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  Speaker 2: challenge system oh my i'm trying to check and see
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  Speaker 2: that's so maybe laz diaz is one of the guys
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  Speaker 2: that has decided to let everybody know that he's hanging
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  Speaker 2: it up at the end of the year there are
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  Speaker 2: a number of veteran umpires that said hey by the
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  Speaker 2: way guys i'm out i'm out of here not dealing
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  Speaker 2: with this nonsense ever again had enough might be laz
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  Speaker 2: diaz as well might be laz diaz after that performance
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  Speaker 2: uh a night ago He also, earlier on in the season,
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  Speaker 2: had a situation similar to, who was our guy, C.B. Buckner?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Who missed Jake Bauer stepping on the base. Laz Diaz
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  Speaker 2: did the exact same thing two weeks ago with Matt Olsen.
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  Speaker 2: My goodness. Would have been the last out of Chris
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  Speaker 2: Sale's complete game.
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  Speaker 3: Shutout.
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  Speaker 2: Ultimately, he did it the next day. So, not category
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  Speaker 2: for some of the refs, but hot category for NBA fans.
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  Speaker 2: NBA preseason is going to start in one week from today.
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  Speaker 2: Or one week from today, they'll be the first NBA
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  Speaker 2: training camps opening up across the NBA. That is a
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  Speaker 2: crazy deal to think of how quickly this is going
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  Speaker 2: to jump on you. One person that will not be
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  Speaker 2: in attendance? Steve Ballmer.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. Competitive consequences, but he said, case closed. We'll
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  Speaker 2: accept the problems. We're okay. I understand. We might have
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  Speaker 2: messed up. And finally, one more in the not category,
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  Speaker 2: Jack Campbell last night, the all-pro linebacker for the Detroit Lions. Drew,
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  Speaker 2: we talked about their defense. It's a tough deal, not
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  Speaker 2: being able to stop anybody. Well, number 46 was drawn
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  Speaker 2: almost to tears last night. After the game, Jack Campbell
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  Speaker 2: holding back emotion, as the write-up says. His voice cracking said,
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  Speaker 2: every time I lace up my cleats, I'm going 100%.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, put it on me. I played terrible. I've
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  Speaker 2: got to be better, especially for the offense and for
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  Speaker 2: all these guys in the locker room. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: be honest with you. Hats off to them, but I
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  Speaker 2: played terrible. That's a tough deal. Tough day for Jack
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  Speaker 2: Campbell because it wasn't just him. The entire Lions defense
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  Speaker 2: played awful. They had one great moment, and it would
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  Speaker 2: have been a great moment if they would have fallen
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  Speaker 2: on the football when Aiden Hutchinson strip-sacked Josh Allen, I think,
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  Speaker 2: on the fourth play of the game last night inside
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  Speaker 2: of Buffalo territory. Buffalo pounces on it and never looked back.
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  Speaker 2: They scored five touchdowns in their first six drives. yesterday
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  Speaker 2: in that game against the Detroit Lions in their beautiful
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  Speaker 2: new ballpark.
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  Speaker 3: Here's some of that Jack Cannell audio if you want
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  Speaker 3: to hear it.
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  Speaker 2: We don't see games like this very often.
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  Speaker 1: Was there any sense of this coming in that it
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  Speaker 1: didn't feel right today?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, every time I lace up my clothes, I'm
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  Speaker 3: going 100%.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, put it on me.
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  Speaker 2: I play terrible, so I got to be better, especially
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  Speaker 2: for the offense and for all these guys in the
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  Speaker 2: locker room. That is some real stuff. That's some real accountability.
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  Speaker 2: And we just want people.
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  Speaker 3: To be held accountable. Accountable, there it is right there.
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  Speaker 2: Holding themselves accountable. Back in the reporters on.
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  Speaker 4: Twitter, it's like, hold them accountable and everyone's accountable. You
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  Speaker 4: call them, let them know you are accountable to me.
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  Speaker 2: Our team would win more if the media would just
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  Speaker 2: hold people accountable. Just hold people accountable.
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  Speaker 4: So maybe that's what that means, having people cry at postgame.
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  Speaker 4: Is that what that means? Maybe that's what it means.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it might be.
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  Speaker 3: Because I've been trying to figure out what hold them
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  Speaker 3: accountable means for a long time, and no one can
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  Speaker 3: really tell me.
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  Speaker 2: It means I want you to be as mad and
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  Speaker 2: upset when you ask a question as I am on
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  Speaker 2: my couch. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Now, don't just ask it. Ask it in a crazy,
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  Speaker 3: angrily manner, I guess.
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  Speaker 4: Is that what it is? Because not even the question,
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  Speaker 4: that's enough for people. You've got to be accountable.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to be accountable. I'm waiting for Armand to
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  Speaker 2: find the Frank Costanza. How could you.
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  Speaker 3: Trade Jay Buhner? Jay Buhner.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Ken Phelps bet. I'll find that one for you.
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  Speaker 2: Baseball people told me Ken Phelps. Ken Phelps. Rob Domofsky
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  Speaker 2: had a awesome post earlier on this week in response
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  Speaker 2: to people asking if they would just hold people accountable.
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  Speaker 2: He was answering a troll. Answering a troll of like
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  Speaker 2: all the different questions that were asked. The questions are
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  Speaker 2: going to get asked, but like you said, Drew, the
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  Speaker 2: biggest thing is it's not going to have the tone
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  Speaker 2: or the tenor that people necessarily want it to because
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  Speaker 2: you can't. That kind of bluntness, or honestly, it's more
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  Speaker 2: just frustratedness, comes from the fan side where you ask
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  Speaker 2: the question, But somebody that's not a fan of the team,
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  Speaker 2: it's not going to sound the same way that it
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  Speaker 2: does for a lot of people listening at home. That's right.
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  Speaker 2: And these guys aren't fans.
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  Speaker 1: They get paid. They show up every day, win or lose.
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  Speaker 1: They got to ask the questions. They don't care. They
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  Speaker 1: just want good quotes and, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, like the good quote games, like the good quote
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  Speaker 2: sean ryan gave him last night what's the plan versus
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  Speaker 2: the jets bleeping protect jay love and bleeping move the
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  Speaker 2: ball keep it simple and keep it easy well there
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  Speaker 2: you go i love that that's the kind of quote
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  Speaker 2: you're looking for now we're talking right that's good strategy right.
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  Speaker 1: I will say though like my favorite athletes to cover
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: were the guys who just owned it Like the throw
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  Speaker 1: in Samoan, Mike Federer's Brewers closer, when he coughed up
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  Speaker 1: a save, didn't happen often, but when he did, they'd
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  Speaker 1: open the door to let the media into the clubhouse.
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  Speaker 2: He'd be standing right there waiting for us. Waiting for you.
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  Speaker 3: Waiting for you.
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  Speaker 2: Like, let's go. It's on me. I sucked.
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  Speaker 1: It felt like I had two left feet. Like I
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  Speaker 1: put my uniform on backwards. I will be better tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: I'll shove it up there. Boom, boom. And if they
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  Speaker 2: give me the ball and I sucked, I cost this game.
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  Speaker 2: It's on me. Don't ask anybody else anything.
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  Speaker 3: It's on me.
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  Speaker 2: Like, how do you rip a guy when that's the quote? Right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The easiest way to get is get out in front
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what he would do. Just like a crazy idea,
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  Speaker 2: the easiest thing to do is tell the truth. As
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  Speaker 2: honestly as you can. It's a radical position today. This
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  Speaker 2: is what happened. Boom. We lost mostly because of me.
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  Speaker 2: I've been meaning to ask you. They've kind of changed
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  Speaker 2: it up in the Brewers clubhouse feel. Do you like
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  Speaker 2: the fact that they're bringing the guys to the front
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  Speaker 2: area where they're talking? Because that's much different than it
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  Speaker 2: always had been.
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  Speaker 1: It is different because it was always like because it
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  Speaker 1: was hard. you thought maybe you were getting a one-on-one
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  Speaker 1: and then there's the swarm, you know, people would swarm you.
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  Speaker 1: And it's the same way in the Packers clubhouse when
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  Speaker 1: it's potluck like that.
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  Speaker 3: For sure.
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  Speaker 1: But with the Brewers, there's usually three guys that you
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  Speaker 1: need to talk to after a game that had pivotal roles.
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  Speaker 1: And my thing was always, okay, well, there's a whole
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  Speaker 1: group of guys around the pitcher who pitched seven shutout innings.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to like, wait for that crowd to thin
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  Speaker 1: out and I'll go talk to the catcher.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: How was his warmup?
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  Speaker 1: What'd you guys do? How did you, you know, did
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  Speaker 1: you feel like he had it right away? What pitches
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  Speaker 1: were working? What was the sequence on that at bat
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  Speaker 1: to Bill Schmidt in the third inning? And then I'd go,
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  Speaker 1: but work my way back over the picture. Now it's like,
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  Speaker 1: the thing is, if those guys do their time in
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  Speaker 1: front of the backdrop that they've set up, are they
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  Speaker 1: then off limits or can you still grab them and
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  Speaker 1: get a little side question? Cause that's the thing that,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not in that ecosystem anymore.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Because then you actually get a different quote. The other
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  Speaker 2: thing is then you have nine quotes that everybody's writing.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the other thing. That goes into maybe more
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  Speaker 2: of the deep conversation of the competitiveness of it.
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  Speaker 1: That was always the Sports Illustrated advantage because the guys
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  Speaker 1: like Raducci and stuff, they would work the room and
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  Speaker 1: they'd be around for those gaggles. And then the gaggle
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  Speaker 1: would go away, and they'd get the guy one-on-one.
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  Speaker 2: And a couple of good ones.
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  Speaker 1: When he's not on stage anymore and a little bit relaxed,
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  Speaker 1: and they would get better quotes just because they had
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: the time to do that when the other slaps were
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: going upstairs to file on deadline.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it always felt like it would be also
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  Speaker 2: a little different when you can give the little, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I apologize if you answered this before, but let me
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  Speaker 2: lean it in this way, a little different twist. You
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: have to twist it a little bit. You can't just
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  Speaker 2: ask the rote questions.
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  Speaker 3: You have to go deeper.
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  Speaker 2: Because for the audio lover in me, I appreciate the
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  Speaker 2: fact that it feels like we get cleaner sound, cleaner video,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't know that you're getting the best reaction
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  Speaker 2: throughout the entire game, if that makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: You can make the case that if they're going to
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  Speaker 1: do that, why not just bring them across the hall?
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  Speaker 2: Go to a podium, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But then there's like this last bastion, like the players...
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  Speaker 1: In all sports, especially the NFL in the last CBA,
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  Speaker 1: they wanted to ban reporters from the locker room.
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  Speaker 2: Once they did it in COVID, I'm kind of surprised
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  Speaker 2: a lot of teams still do, certainly.
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  Speaker 3: It should be a sanctuary and.
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  Speaker 2: Things like that.
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  Speaker 1: I remember Reggie White didn't want the females in there
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  Speaker 1: because of the Christian thing and seeing guys naked and
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: buy everybody robes and stuff if you want to. It's
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  Speaker 1: better when you have that access. In the playoffs, you
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  Speaker 1: don't have pregame clubhouse access.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's true.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All it's only what three players they bring there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And if you have a relationship, we can stop guys
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  Speaker 1: on the dugout or something, or they can choose to
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  Speaker 1: hide or blow you off or something. But so it
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  Speaker 1: does change in the playoffs and it's different. And the
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  Speaker 1: flip side of that is usually they have more guys
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  Speaker 1: that they bring in to hang around and work out
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  Speaker 1: and stuff.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 1: There's more players, but less media traffic. And the players
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  Speaker 1: say that that's relaxing and helps them focus.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 1: So then a lot of them will be like, why
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  Speaker 1: don't we do this all year? Why don't we do
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  Speaker 1: this every day?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, because I've also started seeing it with, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: like the James Franklin video that everybody was enjoying this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: That is, I'm guessing, still a Zoom coaches press conference.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of teams that are still doing it.
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  Speaker 2: Todd Munkin, I think, does almost every single one of
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  Speaker 2: his for the Cleveland Browns on Zoom, where it just,
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  Speaker 2: that was how it went. And then once COVID got,
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  Speaker 2: change and once that was done it felt like there
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: were some teams that were going to lock it in
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: and some have maneuvered it but it doesn't feel as
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: locked in this is what you have to do this
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: is when you have to be available because we do
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: still get some great audio and some great clips but
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: there's some that packers.com doesn't necessarily have in the locker
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: room because you have the freedom to kind of move
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: around and get different guys.
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah it's a double-edged thing the guys are on stage
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: and their guard is up at the podium and it's
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: not you know plus the the world can watch it
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: used to be when you know Back in the olden times,
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: they didn't televise and stream pressers. It was like, you know,
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: we heard it, and then the TV cameras might have
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: been rolling.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: Well, and I wonder, you see it now with, just
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: from offensive line play, as somebody that watches it and
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: enjoys every bit of the All-22, and I'm one of
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: the guys that's sitting there and can't wait to hit
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: P on the next play or whatever, but there's so
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: much media to it and so much conversation about it
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: that it's a difficult... day in age in the NFL
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: to just get better throughout the season, especially that position
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: where there's so it's so loud. There's so much accessibility
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: to the content that, I mean, there are 45 different
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: podcasts of guys breaking down film where there might've been
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: four guys that had the opportunity to 25 years ago.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: And they would just be talking to their guys, the
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: water cool. And they'd be like, okay, Joe, we got it.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: All right. We hear you.
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: We get it.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: You watch the game again. Now it's like, Everybody has
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: to watch it four or five different times and come
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: out of it with eight different hot takes.
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: And everyone has to pretend that they know how to
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: break down film better than every GM.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, you're right.
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: Unless you're the TV copy on VHS once upon a time,
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: you weren't getting all 22 to try and cosplay as
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: a great football coach, which is a lot of people
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: do on the internet.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: It's just a weird balancing act because it feels like
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: we have more media now than ever before, but less...
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: access and availability to it.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: The interesting part, and you said it, Drew, about being
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: on stage, but you always make this point, Billy, and
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: it's true, but when those guys get in their podcast setting,
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: it's a totally different feel. They totally feel more comfortable
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: to talk more, I don't know what the right word is,
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: authentically or naturally or filterless, but in their traditional media setting,
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: they still don't, and they see.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: That as adversarial.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: Whereas a lot of times these guys enjoy being on
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: podcasts to talk about themselves.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: So it is an interesting time we're in, in that sense,
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: no doubt.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it continues to evolve.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: And then players have their own social media accounts.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: Oh, right.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, they got a lot of ways. There was,
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: who am I thinking of? Warriors.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: Draymond.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: He was the first one to walk up to the
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: press conference and be like, hey, by the way, guys,
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you the actual statements on my podcast.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Sorry, man.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: I don't necessarily know that's exactly how this works.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: I don't think that's exactly how this goes. I don't
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: know that we just get to blow it off and say, hey, but.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Just so you know, make sure you like and subscribe
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: to get the real stuff coming up in an hour
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: and a half.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: But who's ever holding those guys accountable, Billy?
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, who's holding them accountable?
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Way to spit it right back in there, aren't you?
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: That's what we want to know. Be accountable.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: 877-794-1973.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: The Friday edition of The Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: He was so young. How could this have happened?
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: Well, he'd been logging some pretty heavy hours. First one
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: in in the morning, last one to leave at night.
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: That kid was a human dynamo.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Are you sure you're talking about George? You are, Mr.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: and Mrs. Costanza. What the hell did you trade Jake Unifor?
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: He had 13 home runs and over 100 RBI's last year.
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: He's got a rocket for an arm.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: You don't know what the hell you're doing.
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: It was a good prospect, no question about it. But
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: my baseball people love Ken Phelps, Matt. They kept saying,
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: Ken Phelps, Ken Phelps.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: We are huddled up on a Friday in the good land.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Drew Billion-Armond bringing it to you from headquarters, 920 Milwaukee,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: 1070 Madison. Football Friday continues. You got your Badgers playing
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: at Camp Randall. Packers heading to the Meadowlands, the swamps
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: of Jersey, to face the Jets at MetLife Stadium. And
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: joining us now on the NicoletLaw.com talk and text line,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: our pal, the voice of the Packers, Wayne Larvey, who
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: just left us at Pottawatomie, the sports book for a
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Thursday night huddle. And he's back with us on Friday morning.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Good morning, Wayne.
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: Good morning, guys. How you doing?
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: We're fantastic. Much better now, Wayne. Always better when you
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: join us and always better after a night spent at
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: the Pottawatomie sports book, especially one where, man, that Buffalo
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Bills offense, Wayne, is real. But I came out of
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: that wondering... Was that Bill's offense just that good? Or
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: those Lions, the Motor City Kitties got some questions on
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: that defense that are going to be hard to answer
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: coming up.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Bill, that's what I took away. Detroit's got issues
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: on defense, and they don't appear to be getting any better.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: They were missing their top two safeties, and that certainly
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: hurts on the back end, and Josh Allen took advantage
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: of that. But, boy, Detroit's gotten torched. There was a
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: point in time at the end of the Saints game
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: last week And the start of the Bills game last
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: night where they gave up, I don't know, touchdowns on
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: four out of six possessions by their opponent, something like that.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: But give them credit. I mean, like a Dan Campbell team,
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: they kept fighting back and kind of made a game
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: of it in the end.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they kind of did. did we were talking earlier
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: the nfl's becoming like the nba where an early 20
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: point lead is yeah you can't really put your feet
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: up yet no.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: No and we know that all too well here don't we.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: Oh absolutely you know We've seen it.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: That's the way it is in the NFL. I mean,
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: you get a big lead on somebody, I guarantee you
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: that team's going to make a comeback against you. They're
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: not going to lay down. And when that happens, when
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: the momentum turns, how you handle that, and Buffalo handled
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: it fine last night, But how you handle that determines
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: whether you win the game or not, even though you
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: had the 20-point lead.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Wayne, the number that you're looking at, they had
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: seven touchdown drives in nine drives by the opponent given
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: up from when they take the 21-0 lead against the Saints.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: to the end of the first half with the Bills,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: four straight touchdowns on four drives. The only drives they
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: didn't give up touchdowns was a missed field goal to
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: try to win the game at the end of regulation
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: and a made field goal by the Saints. So it
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: just shows they were giving up a lot of points
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: in a crazy amount of bunches. And you're branching Joseph
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: out in the back end is a part of it.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: But Wayne, they seem to have a very much aging,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: quickly defensive line. I mean, DJ Wanham had been a
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: nice player with his time in Minnesota, but I don't
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: know that we've heard of him in a while. It
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: feels like they got old kind of quick, especially on
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: that side of the ball.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Lee McNeil didn't get much done in the middle,
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: and he's really a key cog on that defensive front.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: He wasn't getting much done last night. So, yeah, I mean,
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: everybody's got issues. And here's the other thing. I told
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: you guys last week, Minnesota was a tough spot for
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: the Packers to start in. And not just because of
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: the arena, but because of the type of defense they
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: would face and where they were with the offensive line.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: Same thing last night for Detroit. Dan Campbell knew that
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: going into that game last night, the head coach of
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: the Lions. He said, hey, this is going to be
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: tough to hang with these guys in a new building
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: on a short week early in the season. So there
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: are some certain games early in the season when as
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: an investor, Bill, as you are, you would sit there
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: and say, that's a tough spot. I may lay off
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: of that game.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Well, garbage time can be deceiving because the Bills are 2-0,
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: but they've given up 62 points in two games.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Goff had four touchdowns last night. That's a
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: reason for concern as well. It's just this league. Things
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: are shaking out. Wayne, when you watch the Jets, we
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: talked about it last night and what Frank Reich's impact
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: on this game is going to be. I didn't realize
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: until I watched the Jets had a 19-play drive with
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: 17 runs, though 15 were designed and there were a
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: couple scrambles. But it was 11 minutes and 38 seconds,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: but they only got a field goal. Is that a
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: win for the defense or are you demoralized that you
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: couldn't get off the field? I'm wondering what the psychology
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: is of that.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: You know, if you talk to Jonathan Gannon, he would say,
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: you know, that's dying a slow death by a thousand
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: paper cuts, you know, and he doesn't want to do
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: that either. So, no, as a defense, you want to
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: get off the field so you might try something. But,
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: you know, the Jets are a team that, I think
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: they have to play that way. They've got a really
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: good running back tandem. Obviously, Braylon Allen, we know all
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: about him. But when you look at their running back situation,
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: Brees Hall is as good as it gets in many respects.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: Doesn't get a lot of recognition because the Jets haven't
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: won much lately, but that's a good running back tandem.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: They have an emerging offensive line that really started to
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: put it together late last year and getting off to
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: a great start in Tennessee last This year they were
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: moving people off the line of scrimmage in that game
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: last week. The Jets are a ball control kind of
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: team under Frank Reich, and with their quarterback, who's a
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: very accurate passer over the course of his career, Geno Smith,
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: this is how they have to play, and they protect
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: that defense a little bit by doing that. They dominated
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: the game in Tennessee.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Wayne, you've seen so many games, and now
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: it just feels like such a rush to, if you're
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: not going to be the odds-on favorite to win the
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl, Well, then just tank and go find the
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: next quarterback and go 3-14 and then we'll figure it
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: out and build it up from there. The Jets have
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: been in that cycle, it feels like, for a long time.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: And it appears with just some of the moves they
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: made this offseason, the young pieces they have, you mentioned it,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: they raised the floor with Geno Smith who can come in,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: be a veteran. People say bridge. I also think there's
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: levels to it of like, We just don't want to
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: be the worst team in football every single year. And
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: as much as some people think that's a defeatist mindset,
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: there used to be a building block of, hey, now
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: we're just not going to win four games. Now we're
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: going to try to, I don't know, be competitive in
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: all 17 and maybe win seven. It feels like a
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: step that not a lot of teams are trying to
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: do right now, but the Jets just decided this offseason,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: we're going to raise the floor and try not to
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: be the laughingstock of the league anymore.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know, Billy, I think they had all
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: these draft picks. They had kind of Daryl Moogie, their
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: general manager, cleaned house at the trading deadline last year,
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: and they added all these draft picks, and they've got
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: many more coming up in the next couple of years,
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: multiple first-round picks. But they've really decided, okay, we're going
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: to build this thing. We don't have a quarterback yet.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: We don't have a long-term answer at that position yet,
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: but we'll build the rest of the roster here, and
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: we'll try to find that quarterback as we go along.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: This team is a lot better than it was a
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: year ago. I wish the Packers were playing last year's
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: Jets team, but This one's a much different team. And
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: as Aaron Glenn mentioned before the start of the season,
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: and they had changed some coaches too. I mean, you
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: mentioned Frank Reich on that staff. They'd made several coaching
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: changes and brought in some veteran players in addition to
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: the rookies they have. Um, you know, Aaron Glenn said,
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: we now have adults at the table, you know? So
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: I think sometimes it takes two years to three years
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: to build a good coaching staff, but that's what they're
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: trying to do.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Especially on that defense, the adults that you're looking at
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Harrison Smith or Harrison Phillips been around a long time.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: We watched him in Minnesota. I think he's a real
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: player and he gets to play alongside, uh, to Andre
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: sweat who they grabbed from Tennessee, who is an absolute,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: he's a biscuit shy of three 50. He's a big
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: son of a gun. Bring in DeMario Davis, who's been
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: one of the best inside linebackers in football for a
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: long time. And you kind of forget they even have
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Minka Fitzpatrick. Now, I don't know that he's going to
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: be able to go, doubtful right now, in the back end, Wayne.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: But those are some vets that do just give you
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: some calm nature at each level of the defense. And
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: they got young players, but this defensive line with McDonald, Phillips, Sweat,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: and Bailey, the number two overall pick from last year,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: that's no joke. That's not going to be an easy
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: front four to go up against all night.
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree with you wholeheartedly. And again, they brought
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: veterans in. Why? Well, because those guys kind of know
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: how to win. They know what it takes to win.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: And there's nothing better. You can coach all you want,
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: but you need players. Teams really excel and become great
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: teams from within. It's not just about coaching. Coaching can
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: put you in the right spots. But those players on
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: that team have to understand how to work together and win.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: And that's what veteran leadership that the Jets brought in,
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: especially on the defensive side. can do for you. And I,
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: I think, you know, you can have a lot of
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: young players, but if you don't have a few veterans
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: who can show those guys how to do it, like
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: a Charles Woodson showing a couple of young defensive backs,
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: like Tremond Williams and Nick Collins, how to watch film,
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean? How to do it as
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: a pro, uh, without that, the Packers don't win the
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: Superbowl 45. So that's what the jets are getting at. Hey,
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: it's great to be the youngest team of the league,
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: but if you don't have veteran leadership on that team,
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: where are you going?
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Good point.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: We're talking to Wayne Larive, the voice of the Packers,
• 27:21
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• 27:33
  Speaker 1: out this morning, and maybe I heard it before and forgot,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: that the Jets are wearing their white-out jersey, so the
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Packers get to sport the green.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Ooh, I like that.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Which I think is cool, and that made me think, okay,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: so if all the Jets fans are wearing white, Packers
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: fans are going to stand out. more than normal people
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: who are traveling with their white jerseys, pick the wrong
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: ones to wear.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: But Wayne, when the Packers, we know Packers fans are everywhere.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Packers everywhere. Tailgate parties. How do they like to travel
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: to New York? Is, is, is there one city where
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: you see Packers fans more? I would think it would
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: be the warm weather cities, but New York is New York.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Always fun to visit New York. Where do Packers fans
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: travel the best?
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah. You know, it's been a, I'm trying to think,
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: I mean, last time we were out there and played
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: the giants, I think it might've been a Monday night
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: game or something like that. they travel well. I mean,
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: the thing about it is if you're a Packers fan
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: or a Steelers fan or a Cowboys fan, and you're
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: going to a game on the road, you're not alone. Um,
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: same thing with the Yankees in baseball and that kind
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: of thing. You're not alone in those stadiums ever. So, um, yeah,
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: they travel well. The one place I don't think people
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: really want to go to is Philadelphia. Um, you know,
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: just to put up with that in Philadelphia is just,
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: you know, that's, That's probably, as a fan, the last
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: place I'd want to go as an opposing fan.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: It also has to be something. We had a conversation,
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Armin Sarian, getting harassed in Philadelphia as a youth earlier
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: on here today, Wayne. I think it's just people being
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: upset that they live in Philly. It's a problem with
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: their own lot in life. I think that comes to it.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: There's some folks that are very upset with this football team.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: They're a lot in life. They're feeling like the Cleveland Browns.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: 0-1 is a tough spot to be in. However, you
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: talked to us last night at the Thursday Night Huddle.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: I think talked some Packers fans off the ledge on
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: where this team is right now, especially on the offensive line.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: The week one to week two improvement is always something
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: that coaches will hammer home. Biggest improvement comes week one
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: to week two. But do you think that there's some
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: movement around that offensive line or the biggest jump in
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: week one and week two is just the continuity that
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: they try to roll with up there?
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  Speaker 5: Well, Bill, I mean, they could go a couple of
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: different ways, but I think what they'd like to do
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: is get Aaron Banks out there. you know, and he's
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: practicing a little bit this week. Will he be ready
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: for Sunday? You hope so, because I think he's kind
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: of a subtle key and he played well down the
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: stretch last year, according to most accounts. And, you know,
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: that would be big if they could get him out
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: there on the field. But I agree with you. I
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: think that really This offensive line, I can guarantee you this,
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: those coaches are hammering in them in the prep work
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: and practice and that type of thing to step up
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: to the next level. I mean, that was not a
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: good performance. Let's not sugarcoat it or anything like that.
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: That was not, as Steno said, Adam Stanovich, the offensive coordinator,
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: that was not up to standard, not by any stretch
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: of the imagination whatsoever. the performance in Minneapolis. They're facing
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: a team that has some good pass rush people, some
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: good defensive line people. But, hey, this line has to
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: step up. And I think you'll see big improvement in
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: the offensive line from week one to week two for
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: the Green Bay Packers. And let's be honest, they better
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: be better because otherwise Jordan Love is in jeopardy.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: He can't be taking 13, 14, 15 shots. As Steno said,
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: actually 18. He was like, I'm counting them up. We
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: had way too many in this week, especially for one
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: that we watched Aaron Glenn blitz a ton in Detroit. Now,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: did he blitz as much as Brian Flores? Maybe not. But, Wayne,
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: he's going to bring heat. And as a former corner,
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: I think there's also a little bit of thought in
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: the back of your mind of, I'm going to test
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: these guys on the outside, and I think that we
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: can hold up if we bring six almost every single time.
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I think the tape is powerful in
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: the NFL. And what the Vikings did, will teams blitz
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: like that 75%, 80% of the time? No. But they're
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: going to test the Packers with their different blitz packages.
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: Whatever the Jets have for a blitz package, you're going
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: to see it on Sunday. That's a given. So, you know,
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: they're going to test the Packers like the Vikings did
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: or try to. And it's up to the Packers now
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: to answer that. This is the chess match that goes
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: on Season to season in the NFL.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: It's going to be fun. It's going to be fun
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: to watch the chess match. Hey, Wayne, for folks who
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: listen to the Beyond the Booth podcast with Wayne Larravee.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: And if you're not, what are you doing? You should.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: We spoke to Pete Doherty and we were wondering if
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: he was going to make the cut as a Hall
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: of Fame selector.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: He did.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: He did.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: They knocked it almost in half.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: They went from like 50 to 28. And I think
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Pete Doherty made the cut, which is good to have
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: local representation. They're changing that process.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: And it does seem like a reaction to Bill Belichick
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: getting snubbed and Polian and Dungy.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Out, out quickly. Gone, gone.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: But Pete Doherty did make the cut. So we will
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: have a local representation, which I think is a good thing.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: And Pete deserves it.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely. Good to see that happen. And that was
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: an interesting list. Those who were cut, some of those
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: names had been there for a long time and were
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: very instrumental in the hall of fame selection process. So,
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: obviously the Hall's looking at a different situation.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Some legendary guys like Rick Gosselin and John McClain. Rick
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Gosselin has done so much in terms of special teams
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: and understanding and quantifying how good teams are. That's a
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: wild decision. The Cleveland Riders, I'm blanking on the names,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: but you mentioned the Cleveland Riders.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Mary Kay Cabot and Tony Grossi.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: They're out too.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: I was really surprised to see Rick and Mary Kay
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: Not on that list of people they retain because those
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: are really respected NFL voices.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Legendary names.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Wayne, it was great hanging with you last night and
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: this morning. Safe travels. We can't wait to hear the call.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: And Billy and I will be listening as we get
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: ready for Packers OT.
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: Sounds good, guys. Take care.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Wayne.
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: Have a great Monday.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Great Wayne Larravee brought to us on the program by
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Miller Lite, by Wisconsin Concrete Coatings, and of course, Pottawatomie Sportsbook,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: home of the Thursday Night Huddle, but not next Thursday.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Because there's a Packers game. Because there's a Packers game.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: But guess what? They're your home for Packers football if
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: you're trying to have a good time. Because guess what
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: they do? Shots after touchdowns. Exactly. I mean, what's the
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: easiest way to celebrate with a green and gold shot?
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: They also have the Jameson green and gold cocktails, which...
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Serious beat. Elevated food, too.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: When you guys were saying we don't want Jordan Love
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: to take 15 shots, no. We do want Packers fans
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: to take that many at Pottawatomie Sportsbook, because that means
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: we're scoring a lot of points.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, that'd be amazing.
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: I will take that.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: All right, when we come back, we'll close up shop
• 34:01
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  Speaker 1: edition of the huddle, football Friday edition of the huddle,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, Drew Billion, Armand. The last thing,
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• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Billy, who's our superhero of the day? I got a
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: couple of nominees. One would be future Wisconsin Badger, Kingston Allen. Now,
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Kingston's going to have himself an opportunity to potentially be
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: this Every week, every single week, he's going to have
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: a chance to potentially be that. Uh, but he put
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: up last night in the first half on just seven
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: carries quick, 122 yards and, uh, five TDs, five TDs
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: in the first half on seven carries for Notre Dame Academy. Uh,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: the future badger running back, uh, feels like as much
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: can't miss as he can have, uh, last week, his, uh, numbers.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: 15 carries, 229 yards, and six TDs. Through the first
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: two weeks, my man, for the first two weeks, he
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: had 84 carries, 916 yards, and 12 touchdowns. Wow. The
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: two games prior to yesterday, 21 carries, 365 yards, and
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: nine TDs. He then plays a half and puts up
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: five touchdowns on seven carries. People online are just saying, like, listen.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Luke Fickle and the Badgers can't even mess this guy up.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: There's just no way you can mess up that kind
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: of production.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: We'll see.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: He might be a superhero of the day. The other
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: one I would go would be Calvin Shepard for completely
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: ruining the Lions defense. I just saw this stat pop
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: up of their last 14 possessions as we were talking
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: about with Wayne Larrabee just a couple of minutes ago
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: and how brutal the Lions stretch since they went up
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: 21-0 was on the New Orleans Saints. In the last
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: 14 drives, they've given up Ten touchdowns, one made field goal,
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: one missed field goal, and just two punts. That's about
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: as bad as a defense can be, and thank you,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Calvin Shepard, for doing it. We appreciate you ruining that defense.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: And also, Ben Johnson for leaving and now giving Detroit. Maybe,
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: I don't know, Shane Gillis is their head coach. The
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: AI edits of the Detroit Lions coach since Ben Johnson
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: walked out, pretty wild here today. I saw Shane Gillis'
• 36:31
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• 36:33
  Speaker 2: saw a homeless guy on him, which, again, that would
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: be a properly jacked homeless guy if he was standing
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: in for Dan Campbell.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: Well, you never know.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Doing the chest exercises that Bill Belichick would be at
• 36:46
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• 37:16
  Speaker 3: Kingston Allen. You mentioned it, Billy can't miss.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: And you know, you never really know when a guy
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: gets the next level, what he'll do, but he does
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: look like something special going to the Badger.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: You know, I don't know if I'm going to.
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: Say like, there's been a lot of great running backs
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: at Wisconsin Badgers history, a lot of great running backs,
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: but is he etching his name into Wisconsin high school
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: history as well? Like where do we get on that?
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: Like what, what's the stratosphere there? Because when I think
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: about legendary, you know, running backs in high school history,
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: you know, Melvin Gordon was at Bradford and, and, I
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: remember John Clay was dominant at Racine Park.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Brent Moss.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Brent Moss was another one.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: Brent Moss was unbelievable.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: So there were Racine schools.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Michael Bennett, Bradley Tack? Yeah, from Tack.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: Is he going to be in that stratosphere?
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: It sure seems like he can't do much more than
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: scoring a touchdown every play, it seems like, when he
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: does Kingston Allen. So it seems like he might be
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: in that mix at some point.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: He will be for sure. Yeah, and it is also
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: one of those where the ones that you remember a
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: lot more, obviously they end up going to Wisconsin. John
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Clay is a great example for it. Vontae Jackson is
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: one that you forget about, but he was the guy
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: at Bradford with Melvin Gordon, and Jackson was actually the
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: one that committed to Wisconsin first. He had a couple
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: of really devastating knee injuries and never ended up being
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: able to play at the next level to that caliber,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: but There have been so many good ones in the state.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: And yeah, Allen definitely seems to be on that pace.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: But it also comes into the same time that they've
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: got five offensive linemen from the state coming in. The
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: twins from Sussex, Cole from Germantown being a part of it.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Ethan McIntosh coming in from Verona. So they've got a
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: lot of in-state guys, but he will be the one
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: that gets a lot of the pub, especially if you're
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: scoring that many touchdowns.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: I probably shouldn't forget and disrespect the great Alan Amici.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: He's someone out there who's going to get mad at me.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Of course. Get him in there.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: It's going to be a soggy Saturday at Camp Randall,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: like rain expected. 11.30 kick on Peacock. Badgers against Eastern Michigan.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Those Eagles are 1-2. And they lost to Michigan State 35-7.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: So that's the bar. Badgers are favored by 24-25, depending
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: on what you're looking at.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: But that's the bar. 35-7 Michigan State beat Eastern Michigan
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: last week. But just take a deep breath to the
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: 35-7 because it was 14-7 at half. And I think
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: that's going to be the interesting part here. Just like Drew,
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame fans were a little frustrated with that first
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: half against Wisconsin. They're like, wait a second. Wait a second.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: Everyone's got us in the national championship and we're 13-10? Well,
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame's a boa constrictor. You've got to try to
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: be that to this group. But get some explosive plays,
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: especially in the QB run game. That would be the
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: nice thing to be doing. I know there were a
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: lot of empty seats for the opener last weekend against
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Western Illinois. If it's soggy and rainy, the Darties are
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: going to be moved inside, and that might hurt the attendance.
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: When I grew up, we had a bunch of ponchos
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: in the stands. So bring your poncho and get to
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: the game.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: You like that?
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: When was the last time you sat out in the
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: rain for anything?
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: I remember being at a game once with a poncho.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: It might have been a Brewers game.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Hey, you're going to take your daughter outside and play
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: with her on Saturday in the rain. Put some rain
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: boots on her and go splash in some puddles.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: Or you can stay inside. I think we'll stay inside. Yeah,
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: I expect that. Shocker.
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Way to be consistent, Armin. That's well done.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Thanks to Wayne Larrabee for joining us. Thanks to Hunter
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Baumgart for his great work in Pittsburgh. We will do
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: it again. Billy's going to have the postgame for the Badgers.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: I will team up with Billy for Packers OT, and
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: we'll see you Monday at 5 a.m.
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: Peace!